3457673 Corporal Robert James Lyons
Killed/died of wounds/other causes as the result of
operation ‘Market’
Born on: 18 Feb 1914
Died on: 20 Sep 1944
Died at: Battle of Arnhem
Aged: 30
Buried at: No known grave.
Commemorated Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery panel 8.
Rest in Peace Corporal Lyons:
11th Bn. Parachute Regt., A.A.C.
Husband of Olive
Audrey Lyons, of Wythenshawe, Manchester.
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Diana Andrews; Allan Brown; Andrew Blacklock; Jon Baker; John Howes; Graham Francis; Bob Gerritsen; Darren
Wielink; Maarten Lenssen; Judith Minkman; Philip Reinders; Hans den Brok; many 11th Battalion veterans; family, next of kin
and friends; staff of the Airborne Museum Hartenstein Oosterbeek; Airborne Assault Museum Duxford; and Gerrit Pijpers OBE without whom
this website would not have been possible.